Category archives for yoga

Dr. Artour Rakhimov and Volker Schmitz discuss Wim Hof’s method and the method of Dr. Buteyko that transformed the health conditions of thousands of people worldwide. Does Wim Hof’s breathing have a relation to Buteyko breathing? It looks like a completely opposite idea as Wim Hof has people breathe a lot of air or hyperventilate. […]

Calisthenics, acrobatics, and gymnastics provide outstanding advantages compared to other activities by increasing body-oxygen levels. Volker Schmitz has been teaching Chinese calisthenics, acrobatics, and gymnastics for many years. Together with Dr. Artour Rakhimov, they discuss the questions, “How can breathing retraining help people practice these moving arts?” and “How these moving arts can improve their […]

Practicing breathing retraining will allow you to practice Shaolin kung fu with intensity and joy. Volker Schmitz is a Shaolin kung fu teacher for over 15 years in Hamburg Germany. Dr. Artour Rakhimov is going to ask Volker questions about changes that occurred in people’s unconscious or automatic breathing patterns during the last 100 years. […]

Lifestyle factors in yoga (sleep, diet and exercise) greatly help to improve body-oxygen levels and in turn, they benefit your yoga practice. In this video, Dr. Artour Rakhimov and Volker Schmitz, a yoga teacher with years of experience discuss this topic. Changes in our unconscious breathing patterns help with our yoga practice and vice versa. […]

How to move forward with asana practice? What to do with breathing during this or this specific yoga posture? How to measure one’s general progress in his or her yoga asana practice? How to practice in order to get maximum health benefits from yoga asanas? Yogic postures (asanas) and breathing exercises when done properly will […]

How can we get maximum health benefits of yoga with pranayama? What are ways to have pranayama benefits when progressing in personal yoga practice? How many cycles per minute and durations of inhalations/exhalations for correct yoga practice? In this video, Dr. Artour Rakhimov and Volker Schmitz discuss the relation of breathing retraining to yogi’s […]